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οἰμ-ώζω

oimozo

to wail loudly, cry, lament

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Where it lives

Birds 6 · 5.63/10k
Ecclesiazusae 3 · 3.93/10k
Thesmophoriazusae 2 · 2.84/10k
Acharnians 2 · 2.82/10k
On the Sacred Disease 1 · 2.18/10k
Discourses 11 · 1.48/10k
Lysistrata 1 · 1.26/10k
Plutus 1 · 1.24/10k
Knights 1 · 1.13/10k
Frogs 1 · 1.1/10k
Oedipus at Colonus 1 · 0.97/10k
Meditations 1 · 0.34/10k

Densest 12 of 14 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. οἰμώζω · oimōzō — Beekes

οἰμώζω [v.] ‘to wail loudly, cry, lament’ (1].). VAR Aor. οἰμῶξαι (IL), fut. οἰμώξ-ομαι (Att.),: τω (Plu., AP). *COMP Also ΜΝ ἀν-, ἀπ-, εἴς. DER οἰμωγ-ή [f.] (11.). -μα [n.] (A. E), -μός [m.] (5.} privative adjective ἀν-οίμωκτος ‘not wailed for’, adverb ἀν-οιμωκ-τί (-tef) without lamentation’ = ‘unpunished’ (S.). An innovation is οἰμώττω ‘id’ (Lib.). *ETYM Derived from the interjection οἴμοι (of μοι) ‘woe … — [Beekes, s.v. οἰμώζω, p. 1109]

2. οἰμώζω · oimōzō — Frisk

οἰμώζω (nachhom.), Aor. οἰμῶξαι (seit 1].), Fut. οἰμώξ-ομαι (att. usw.), τω (Plu., AP), auch mit dv-, ἀπ- usw., “laut weh364 olvn—olvog klagen, jammern, klagen’. Davon οἰμωγ-ή f. (seit Il.; Chantraine Form. 401, Porzig Satzinhalte 189), -μα ἡ. (A., E.), «μός m. (8.); privatives Adj. ἀν-οίμωκ-τος "unbeklagt’, Adv. ἀν-οιμωκ-τέ (-tei) ‘ohne Jammer” = “unbestraft” (S.). — Neubildung οἰμώττω ‘ds’ (Lib.; zu οἰμῶξ-αι u.a., … — [Frisk, s.v. οἰμώζω, p. 1335]

3. οἰμ-ώζω · oim-ōzō — LSJ

wail aloud, lament

wail aloud, lament, ᾤμωξέν τε καὶ ὣ πεπλήγετο μηρώ Il. 12.162, etc. ; οἰ. σμερδαλέον, ἐλεεινά, 18.35, 22.408 ; ἦ κε μέγʼ οἰμώξειε γέρων ἱππηλάτα Πηλεύς 7.125, cf. Hdt. 7.159 ; of a wounded man, οἰμώξας πέσεν Od. 18.398 ; γνὺξ δʼ ἔριπʼ οἰμώξας Il. 5.68 ; στυγνὸν οἰμώξας S. Ant. 1226 : c. acc. cogn., Τελαμῶνος οἰ. μέλη Theopomp.Com. 64.

2 plague take you !

in familiar Att., οἴμωζε, as a curse, plague take you ! Ar. Ach. 1035 ; οἰμώζετε Id. Ra. 257 ; οἰμώξἄρα σύ Id. Pl. 876 ; οἰμώξεσθʼ ἄρα Id. Nu. 217 ; οἰμώζειν λέγω σοι Id. Pl. 58, cf. Luc. Gall. 23 ; οὐκ οἰμώξεται; Ar. Ra. 178, cf. X. HG 2.3.56, Men. Epit. 428 ; οἰμώζων καθεδεῖται Ar. Ach. 840 ; οἴμωζε μεγάλα Id. Av. 1503 ; οἰμώξει μακρά Id. Pl. 111, Men. Epit. 528 ; κολάκων οἰμωξομένων Ar. V. 1033 ; πονηροῦ σοφιστοῦ καὶ οἰμωξομένου D. 35.40 ; ἐᾶν οἰμώζειν ‘let go hang’, PCair.Zen. 44.8 (iii B. C

II pity, bewail, bewailed

trans., pity, bewail, c. acc., Tyrt. 7, A. Ch. 8, S. El. 788, E. Hipp. 1405, El. 248 :— Pass., οἰμωχθείς bewailed, Thgn. 1204 ; ᾠμωγμένον κάρα E. Ba. 1285.

In the wild

οἴμωζέ · oimōze Aristophanes, Acharnians 1035 (DIORISIS sentence 786)
οἰμώζων · oimōzōn Aristophanes, Acharnians 1 (DIORISIS sentence 655)
οἴμωζε · oimōze Aristophanes, Birds 1 (DIORISIS sentence 1104)
οἴμωζε · oimōze Aristophanes, Birds 1 (DIORISIS sentence 1156)
οἰμώζειν · oimōzein Aristophanes, Birds 1 (DIORISIS sentence 1201)
οἰμώζειν · oimōzein Aristophanes, Birds (DIORISIS sentence 309)

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